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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. He has performed this role since the company’s inception after Yammer was spun-out of Geni Inc. (a

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. I have a few meetings with the team, perhaps about the website design, radio show structure, an event we are working on, a sponsorship (perhaps the uniforms for our youth basketball team). I’m more familiar with content marketing in B2B Marketing.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

And we wanted a head of global marketing. RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company. I wanted them to have a market lead before others could try and build what Ethan was working on. We will stay in LA and then Southern California before branching out into our 2nd & 3rd markets.

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

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In SoCal we are also leaders in affiliate marketing (Commission Junction), Internet video (Hulu) and bringing local businesses online (ReachLocal). He obviously believes this since he has become CEO of TopSpin Media – a firm designed to do just that. We are also home to DemandMedia (Richard Rosenblatt) and Mahalo (Jason Calacanis).

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

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million which was raised from Thiel, David Sacks (CEO of Yammer), and Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir), 500 Startups and 7th Rig. Sroka earlier worked at Industrial Logic,where he developed programs in test-driven development, refactoring, and object-oriented design for HP, Yahoo!, million Raised. 25 Years of Writing Code.

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Interview with Jon Ferrara, Nimble

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What was unique about Goldmine, was that it was a simple, yet powerful tool for individuals or teams, to manage relationships and keep track of top of the line marketing and track sales. Now, you don't have to go to Twitter to listen, LinkedIn to listen, your email inbox, find contacts in Google Contacts, or even Yammer or Hootsuite.

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The Coming Shift in Enterprise Software

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For six years before that he was at Siebel who was the market leader in CRM before Salesforce, and he has both a masters in product design from Stanford and an MBA. I am often quoted as saying “70% of my investment decision is the people and 30% is the market” and there is a reason. Why Invest? Think about Snapchat.

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